OBJECTIVE This study's objective was to ascertain factors contributing to high retention of community-based sites and their physicians in a 3-decade-old family medicine clerkship. METHODS Focus groups were conducted with community-based physicians from the Medical College of Georgia's family medicine clerkship. Transcripts were analyzed using an iterative process regarding physicians' initial...

OBJECTIVE This descriptive study explored the reasons for occupational therapy faculty members selecting academia as a career, their use of faculty development practices, and the relationship of organizational culture to collegial support. METHOD Full-time faculty members (n = 191) from accredited occupational therapy professional programs in the United States completed a questionnaire about ...

Are public research universities effective communities of learning? Over time our collegial processes for maintaining and improving academic standards have been corroded by forces both within and outside the university. We now confront a dilemma of collective action in which decisions individual faculty members make with regard to teaching may not optimize the learning that university graduates...

Academic staff development in the pedagogical applications of new technologies is fundamental to the transformation of teaching and learning in tertiary education settings. We present a case study of a staff development activity at Deakin University, a multi-campus university offering on and off-campus programs, which aimed to develop a collegial online experience for academics interested in us...

Coalition operations over the past decade exhibit a propensity towards collegial decision-making even in the presence of formal, normally hierarchical, decision-making apparatus. Meanwhile, the US military, especially the US Air Force, is adopting effectsbased operations (EBO) as a method of planning, executing, and assessing military operations that achieves desired effects that attain strateg...

This two-wave mixed-methods study used the job demands and resources model to examine effects of COVID-19 pandemic on school personnel's work well-being (including burnout, engagement, sense belonging) in spring 2020 Finland particular with respect collegial relationships (respectful engagement) leadership support. A pre-lockdown survey was administered prior (in January–February, n = 437) a po...

This paper studies the applicability of theoretical models of university governance from the international research literature to the Polish system. In particular, it is to test the applicability of a collegial model in the Polish case. The research question was ‘to what extent is a collegial model reflected in actual governance patterns found in the Polish university sector’. This is based on ...